Work, life and being human in the midst of fourth industrial transformation
Is the EU one of the greatest social experiments of our times?
I love Europe – who doesn’t? But lately I have come to realise that I love Europe in the way that people more easily love things they don’t really understand. Knowing about Europe’s peppered and challenging history is one thing. Understanding its future, is another.
A book for fourth industrial travellers, this the third of Yuval Harari’s masterpieces, following his earlier works in the series: Homo Sapiens and Homos Deus.
The first book, Homos Sapiens (2014), offers a unique take on people and society, examining who we are and what makes us human through the lens of history. The second, Homo Deus (2016), examines who we are becoming in the next 100 years. A seminal work, it challenges us to follow the exponential curve of history to its illogical consequence. In contrast, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018) is much more about the here and now. It looks at questions that we should be asking ourselves today.
“If the future of humanity is decided in your absence, because you are too busy feeding and clothing your kids – you and they will not be exempt from the consequences. This is very unfair; but who said history was fair?” Continue reading “Must Read: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century”
This is a blog about the fourth industrial revolution, a place where tales from the edge of ‘big change’ are shared to help you through similar journeys. Here you will be provided with forewarnings of fourth industrial monsters while descriptions of wondrous far-away shores will be served with a dose of salt.
You may be a leader in business or government, a student, a teacher, a consumer, user, citizen or employee. If you’re curious about how the world is changing in the eddies of global, digital, technological and biological waters, read on.
My hope is that, in the mix of writing offered up on this blog, you will find the beginnings of a map. Perhaps also you will discover a place of shelter from which you may safely consider the terrain of ‘big change’ being brought about by the fourth industrial revolution, while refilling your cup of wonder at the mystery of its shores.